Education

Long Branch, NJ – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) read to children at Asbury Park Pediatrics as part of the Reach Out and Read program that prepares America’s youngest children to succeed in school by training doctors and nurses to advise parents about the importance of reading aloud and to give books to children at checkups from 6 months through 5 years. Through Reach Out and Read, each child starts kindergarten with a home library of up to 10 new, carefully chosen books and a parent who has heard at every health supervision visit about the importance of books and reading.

New Brunswick, NJ - Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health, which oversees the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control, among other critical health care-related issues, released the following statement today upon the historic merger of Rutgers University and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ):

Newark, NJ – On Monday, July 1, Congressmen Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) and Donald Payne, Jr. (NJ-10) called for a solution to the doubling of interest rates for federally backed, need-based loans that went into effect today. The congressmen held a press conference at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and condemned House Republican leadership’s failure to allow a vote on the Democratic solution to freeze the rates at 3.4 percent. The rate hike affects 7 million students.

WASHINGTON DC – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today announced The Old Bridge Township Board of Education was selected to receive rebates for new clean diesel school buses. The rebates are worth up to $30,000 and are part of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) School Bus Replacement Rebate Program.